Red Apples

Apr 19, 1976

1h 26m

★ 6.7

Overview

In Alexandru Tatos’s debut film, a young urologist is assigned to a town hospital with no urology ward and keeps bumping up against his superiors because of both ethical and medical problems.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Casa de Filme Unu

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Cast

Dr. Irod

Mircea Diaconu

Dr. Mitroi

Ion Cojar

Medical assistant

Angela Stoenescu

Psychologist

Carmen Galin

Emilia Dobrin

Ernest Maftei

Gică

Florin Zamfirescu

Prosecutor

Mitică Popescu

Vasile Cosma

Melania Ursu

Gheorghe Nuțescu

Valeriu Paraschiv

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